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[Mashup Feed - ProgrammableWeb] Google Gears Geolocation API Gets WiFi: [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGoogle has just announced a nice addition to the Google Gears Geolocation API: the ability to use WiFi on laptops to locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world. We originally covered the GeoLocation API back in August, when Google first announced the release of the API for use in mobile devices to get a more precise estimate of a user’s location.

[Search Engine Roundtable] Google's Geolocation API Comes to the Browser: Google currently knows your approximate location for when you do searches only via IP data, personalized search data or other, less exact methods. But now, if the browser can detect wifi locations and/or cell towers, Google will know where you are, almost to your exact location.

[WebProNews - Google] Google Expands Geolocation API to WiFi | WebProNews: We also submitted a simplified version of the Geolocation API as a WC3 specification and the upcoming Firefox 3.1 plans to support the W3C version directly. The Gears Geolocation API is completely free to developers and users through the default Google location provider.

[GPS Obsessed] Google Gears Geolocation API Goes WiFi, Works With Desktop ...: For privacy reasons, the Gears Location API server doesn’t record your location, but if you allow third-party sites to access that data (and you can opt-on or out everytime) than they likely will.  So be careful is privacy is a concern for you.

[Pete Freitag's Homepage] Geolocation API for Adobe AIR?: It also has information available on the mobile device and provider, the mast your connecting via, your altitude etc So to answer part of your question about AIR, well if your the style of AIR developer that uses HTML/Javascript then these methods are already available to you as you can pull in various libraries and google APIs into AIR.

[The Click2Mapâ™ Blog] The Click2Mapâ™ Blog » Blog Archive » Gears Geolocation API for ...: I am thrilled to announce that today we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world. Whether your users are Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or (soon) Opera users, you can now automatically deliver an experience that is tailored to their current location.

[YouTube API Blog] YouTube API Blog: YouTube Geo Search + Gears Geolocation = Find ...: Gears Geolocation API provides a best-effort approximation (WIFI-based for PC and GPS/CellID-based for mobile devices) of your physical location. When you combine these two features together, you can create some really interesting and .

[calm in the chaos] Google Maps geo-location by IP Flex example at calm in the chaos: but thanks for your help. 1 google maps | Digg hot tags Pingback on Dec 13th, 2008 at 5:07 pm; 2 » Google Maps geo-location by IP Flex example at calm in the chaos da 24 Blog News Pingback on Dec 13th, 2008 at 8:42 pm ...

[Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen] Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 37 ...: They offer a versioning API, so you can say, "get me version 2 of something" you'll get 2.24 if it's the latest.

[London Calling » the mobile advertising blog] London Calling » Google geolocation API gets the green light: London Calling - Andrew Gill writes about Google Gears on E71, and why that’s important McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Business Observations: September 25, 2008 Edition. September 5, 2008 at 23:06.

[ProgrammableWeb] Google’s New Geolocation API for Gears: The Javascript-based API does require users to download the Google Gears extension (if they haven’t already), and the API may not gain widespread adoption until Google Gears is supported on a broader basis (i.e., non-Windows Mobile devices). However, this is an interesting move by Google, and by releasing the API as part of Gears, Google has provided yet another API to an existing developer base.

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